Supreme Ruling

After last week's disappointing Supreme Court ruling to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, I've been looking for a way to offer my perspective without sounding too "preachy." In my view, the decision is wrong because it violates the teachings of the Bible — that marriage is between one man and one woman.

People say this definition of marriage is outdated. They say we must "evolve" as a society to be more tolerant. They say times have changed, and we need to get on the right side of history and support the marriage of two people of the same gender.

Times have changed. But God and His Word haven't.

We can debate the issue in our courts and the public square, but we can't deny what God has declared in His Word. The Bible clearly says homosexual relationships are wrong. This isn't a gray issue. It's a sin issue. Romans 1:27 spells it out plainly. It says, "In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error."

I'm not the arbiter of "right" and "wrong." Neither is the U.S. Supreme Court. God is the ultimate judge, and He already gave us His plan for marriage. It will never change.

As I listened to all the bickering on TV about the decision, Mike Huckabee's commentary stood out as the most logical and well-reasoned. In it, he said, "I can’t defy the definition of marriage any more than I can defy the law of gravity. God created both and at the point I decided to follow Him in my Christian commitment, my life nor its rules belong to me any more."

For all true believers, there's only one position to take on the issue of marriage. We must take God's position that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Huckabee ended his commentary with this: "Courts said in 1857 that black people weren’t fully human and they were wrong. They said in 1962 that we couldn’t pray in school and they were wrong. In 1973, they said unborn children were disposable and expendable, and 56 million dead children later, they were wrong. And this week, for those of us who believe God created male and female, and who believe what Jesus said that a man shall leave his father and mother and a woman shall leave her home and the two will become one flesh, they were wrong again."

The Supreme Court had its say, but God has the final decision.